This whole thing bothers me. I didn't grow up in Pike, but thats where my roots are and my girlfriend is from so I am very closely tied to it. I am surrounded by by people hunting from the Carolina's, Mississippi, New York, and various other places. I have never killed a buck before, and I will be personally devasted if Somebody gets a deer that I wound because it died. The only fences I have are few and they are low.

I also have to worry about people hunting my ground without permission. There is some timber on it with cattle, and I'm going to have to send somebody back there duing shotgun season in orange jsut to make sure that people aren't illegally back there. I love hunting, and a lot of this just sickens me.

I'm not anti outfitter at all, but at this point it is getting ridiculous to me. If i had money I would pay an outfitter to get me on elk or caribou, and bears or various other species, but the amoutn of outfitters and leased land in west central illinois is ridiculous. I just want to keep on hunting and having fun with it, and one day pass it on to someone else, but with prices the way they are I'm not going to be able to.